Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-06-27
MYSTERY OF RED HATR.
THE CONCLUSIVE DEMONSTRATION
MADE BY AN ARTIST.

No such Thing as Real Red Iair-The
Sunset Headed Maiden Is Never stupid.
Glowing Locks on the Stage--Gn Lit
erature
'Red hairl There's no such thingr'
exclaimed n young and well known artist
who has passed many days in sunny
Italy the other afternoon as he prom
enaded up Fifth avenue with On equally
well known swell They had just come
from lunching at Delmonico's at the
swell's expense, and the latter had just
remarked, after the manner Of his kind:
''By Jove just look at that wed headed
girl croyssing ovah heah; she gives me
sunstroke, dontcher know.
"Why don't people call colors by their
proper namessn went on the cXasperated
artist as they passed the Brunswick.
"But, my deah fellah, dontcher know
what Navy Anderson says, * wose by
any other name would smell as sweet
and If wed hair isn't wed, why, it looks
we'd all the same,n and as this logic
seemed irrefutable there was silence until
the two men disappeared within the por-
tails of the I<niekerbocker club.
The reporter, who had overheard this
conversation, determined to unsolve the
the artist in his studio to find out what
color red hair was. The artist was look
ing picturesque and kind, and was pleased
to mix on his palette three different
shades of red, three of yellow and three
of brown.
TWO OR THREE CoLoRS MINED.
'Now,n said he, with the air of the coll
lege professor who pauses TO catch the
me out the color that is like red hair"
The reporter couldn't do it. lie lowered
about the orange color as the small boy
around the circus tent, but could not
touch it, He almost singled out enc of
the sickly looking browns, but the reds he
skipped entirely.
"Give it up"
Thought you would" said the crtist
condescendingly. 'What people c&A red
hair is mixture of two or three colors,
according to the shade of red Now, lcok
here If l dab my finger in this yellow
and mix it with that red, what do ] ctf'
''Why, exactly the color Of hair TIC Girl
had today"
II told you So said the artist, 'and
don't let any one ever convince ycu that
there is such a thing as real rcd hair.
Call il red if you choose, but don't think of
~
coaching parasol, because you will be way
off, Adelaide Nelson had red hair, you
know, one Of the most beautiful tints, and
Willie Winter spoke of it as the burnish
ed gold that floated around her royal
head, so if you choose to take that term
you will be nearer the truth. -
It is said by those who ought to know,
and no one has contradicted the state
ment, that red haired girl is never q
stupid girl. She Is always quick of speech
and quick of action. Red hair brings
with it quick intelligence and generally
great sensibility When it comes with
blue eyes and brown brows and lashes the
owner Is of a sentimental turn of mind
and usually very musical; with brown
eyes and dark lashes the red headed girl is
noted for her beauty of complexion--gen-
orally nivory white-her love of exercise,
and is very frequently endowed with great
dramatic ability.
A STRONG, EMOTIONAL NATURE.
Red hair always goes with strong, emo
tional nature, and the red haired girl
laughs and cries at the theatre when her
black and yellow haired sisters sit silent
She is creature quick to anger, easy to
please, lovable darling when she likes
you, but sharper than two edged sword
and as bitter as early gooseberries when
she doesn't.
''Who are our red headed girls and
womens''
Those on the stage are well known. Mrs.
James Brown Potter is perhaps the most
interesting. Her hair is considered her
greatest beauty. 1t isn't the reddish
red hair, but it looks like bronze, touched
with a tint of golden flame here and there.
Mary Anderson, who has light brown hair,
by the way, raves over Mrs Potter's hair
| and wishes hers was like it.
Kate Claxton has what is called real
red hair-the bricky, carroty, dark red
tint-but 1t is not bit unbecoming. tits
so soft and silken, so plentiful and curls
in loose ringlets, and then it has been such
a salvation to her, so she says, for when
| fire meets fire they run apart, and she
owes her miraculous escapes from burning
hotels to her ruddy hair.
In the literary world red hair is in
| tensely admired. Emerson loved it, James
Whitcomb Riley has written many poems
on it and in one calls it ''nut brown hair
with golden CLEAN, and Dante Gabrielle
| Rosetti's wife, whe died when very young,
| had hair Ct Q yellow red long and carling.
| He buried all his poems with her, but the
friends who had wished for his fame had
them removed few years afterwards and
found that the beautiful red hair had
grown and twined itself all about the
manuscript.
In our literary world Of to-day there are
many women with red hair.
In the social world there are many red
headed girls and women who are both
bellies and beauties.
Among the great army Of girls who
earn their living in the large dry goods
| stores there are many with rcd hair which
society bellies would give great deal Of
/ money to possess.
A lady artist gives a few hints as to
what eolors red headed people should
wear:
Those who have hair verging on brown
| look well in anything. Most red headed
| people should avoid crimson; pink is be-
coming to pale golden red hair and very
/ fair COMPLEXION: green Of al shades to al